Perspective: Americans have helped spread a right-wing version of evangelical Christianity in Brazil. It played a role in the insurrection there.
, whose convictions were shaped considerably by U.S. evangelicals. The strong evangelical reaction against social justice and policies of inclusion in both countries reveal their shared political leanings; the Christian imagery present in the “sister insurrections” is not accidental. A century of transnational evangelical cross-pollination has seeded shared theologies, social imaginations and strategies that help explain the right-wing authoritarian impulse in Brazilian and American politics.
Meanwhile, Americans ran many Brazilian theological seminaries, sharing their evangelical theology through translated literature, while many prominent Brazilian evangelical leaders studied in seminaries in the United States. left-wing resistance movements within Protestant churches, while granting evangelicals radio and television licenses, which became vital tools for disseminating conservative religious and political ideologies.
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